# How to get the "real" size of a movieclip?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-get-the-real-size-of-a-movieclip/244481>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 18, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-get-the-real-size-of-a-movieclip/244481 "2007-11-18T23:47:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![tp3t3r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@tp3t3r](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tp3t3r)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-get-the-real-size-of-a-movieclip/244481/1 "2007-11-18T23:47:20Z")

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Hi there,

I have an annoying problem with MCs which have a dynamic text field. After setting the textfield.text to the proper value (while textfield.autoSize = true) the \_height of the textfield increases, but the \_height of the movieclip itself doesn’t.

And of course, there is a lot of text in the textfield, and the size of the MC should be bigger after writing into it…

I would like to know, how is it possible to determine the “real” dimensions of the container movieclip?

Thanks for any kind of help in advance!